Final Project

EFDN 306 Video For my final project, I created a stop-motion video that highlights some of the positive moments and movements of LGBTQ+ rights in Canada. After displaying these rights, I transitioned into questioning why people of the LGBTQ+ community…

Meta-Reflection

Meta-Reflection Video Script: When I registered for this class, I imagined it to be a class in which they taught us how to teach about the environment in a school setting. Since I didn’t have environmental science in high school,…

CJ #4: Decolonizing Encounters

The Indigenous peoples are well-known for their love of nature and relationships with it, which is why I believe it should play a huge role in environmental education classes. Instead, people tend to separate socio-cultural and environmental education, thinking they…

CJ #3: The Canoe Pedagogy

Liz Newberry’s article Canoe Pedagogy and Colonial History: Exploring Contested Spaces of Outdoor Environmental Education mentions that the Euro-westernized way of teaching focuses more on the details of the fur trade and the daily lives of voyageurs during colonialism. Although these are…

CJ #2: Reciprocity with the Land

After looking through topics on how to disrupt climate change, I really liked the idea of gardening. When I was younger, I would often help my mom in the garden. I remember pulling out weeds, picking carrots, tomatoes, peppers, and…

CJ #1: What is the Environment?

When I read the question “what does the environment mean to you?” I thought of many things. To me, the word “environment” basically means our surroundings. For example, it could be an indoor environment such as home or school or…

Constructions of Schooling

Over the last couple of weeks, we have touched on several topics that have helped shape and influence education. Throughout history, several teachers, students, and other professionals have played a role in shaping the education system and how education is…

Constructions of the Learner

We have touched on many topics over the course of the last couple of months. Some topics had me questioning as to why they had to be taught, whereas others I found critical for future educators to know and be…

Blog Entry #8

3 Things I learned I never really thought of teachers being considered as a discourse. In all the education courses I have taken so far, we have talked about several different discourses – but never about teaching being a discourse…

Blog Entry #7

3 Things I learned: The reading on Teachers, Administrators, and the Schools stated that there were usually shortages in French Immersion teachers. Although I have attended a French immersion elementary school and high school, I never noticed the shortage of…